MANETs are self-organizing infrastructure-less networks formed on the fly by a group of wireless nodes. The lack of central administration in these networks necessitates host auto-configuration. The proposed auto-configuration protocols to date are either not robust enough to respond efficiently to the dynamic nature of the MANETs or they are resource greedy. Also, there has been no detailed attempt made to compare the effectiveness of these protocols which is essential to judge relative merits and demerits. This paper presents a new stateful robust host auto-configuration protocol which is based on dynamically selected Address Agents (AAs) that maintain a distributed address table. The performance of the proposed protocol is comprehensively compared with a representative protocol that employs a different address table management technique.
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In the present implementation of DHAPM, CID is not used. However, it is reserved for future implementations which may use clustering to address scalability issues.
It is not clear in [14] how AR is sent to AA. So it is optimistically assumed here that AR is sent to a neighbor which will forward AR to the AA.
In [17], it is not clear how two nodes with conflicting IP addresses communicate with each other. So the cost to resolve conflicting IP addresses is optimistically assumed to be 2 * U C.
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A shorter version of this paper has been accepted by IEEE MILCOM 2005 [1]. This version contains additional analytical and simulation results.
Mohammad Nazeeruddin graduated with a BE in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Osmania University (India), M.Sc in Systems Engineering from KFUPM (Saudi Arabia) and is currently pursuing his PhD on a VCRS scholarship in the School of Computing and Information Engineering at the University Ulster Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Prior to this he served as a UNIX Systems Administrator for 4 years and as Network coordinator for 1 year at KFUPM. During this period he initiated and successfully finished several IT projects. He has considerable experience in handling practical aspects of networking and is generally interested in the systems pathway of Computer Science and Engineering.
Gerard Parr, B.Sc Computer Science (Ulster), Ph.D Telecommunications (Ulster) holds the Full Chair in Telecommunications Engineering and is the coordinator of the Internet Technologies Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He has published research widely in international peerreviewed journals, including Communications of the ACM, eTNSM, LNCS Springer-Verlag, and COMNET and at a number of IEEE conferences. More details can be found at:- http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/staff/gp.parr.
Bryan Scotney (B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Durham UK; Ph.D. Mathematics University of Reading, UK) is Professor of Informatics in the School of Computing and Information Engineering at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Director of the Computer Science Research Institute. His research interests are in the application of mathematics to computer science, including statistical database technology, computer vision and communications networks. He has co-authored one book and published over 100 research papers.
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Nazeeruddin, M., Parr, G. & Scotney, B. DHAPM: A New Host Auto-configuration Protocol for Highly Dynamic MANETs. J Netw Syst Manage 14, 441–475 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-006-9038-5
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